Studio Quality Recording of Live Performances

Our Studio is a full-featured recording, mixing, and mastering studio with full live recording and studio quality mix down and mastering capabilities, located in Kalaheo on the island of Kauai.

With both an engineering and a musical background, our staff combines the best of both worlds - technical know-how with a love of music to produce a technically perfect yet artistically inspired product. For live recordings, our goal is two-fold: 1) to perfectly capture the energy, vibe, and magic of your live performance including your audience, and 2) to do it in a way that is completely unobtrusive on your live mix.

Our focus is on music that is crisp, clear, and sonically balanced with vocals that can be heard and understood. No boomy bass. No overbearing sibilance. No muddy tracks that step all over each other. We want every instrument, every voice, and every sound in the recording to be crisp and clean in the final mix, occupying its own space with its own sense of importance.

This starts at the beginning - discussing your musical goals, then working with your live sound engineer to establish a plan. Typically, it’s as simple as tapping each separate line into the main mixer and also adding a pair of audience mics on stage. That’s it. By using this approach, we get a clean independent signal for each separate channel that is unaffected by the house mix, EQ, compression, etc. And, conversely, our recording has no effect on the house mix. Completely unobtrusive. For more information, please download our Live Recording Tech Diagram. (PDF)

Back in the studio, we apply just the right EQ, compression, effects, level, and pan on each channel in the mix, and then add the audience & ambience so that everything is exactly where it belongs.

Finally, just enough tweaking at the Mastering process so that your product stands out against any and all of the best commercially available recordings today - a studio quality recording of a live performance. Contact us to listen to some of our samples. We think you will be impressed.